"Palais de Steff" has arrived and is a work in progress.
So come on in...grab a cocktail... or the nearest available houseboy and make yourself at home...feel free to wander about or just plonk yourself down and stay a while...
Princess says "Hello and Welcome"!...

Friday, April 3, 2015

A Seaside Adventure....

Hello Dhaaarlings...

Princess...

And the Empress...

Are off for a seaside adventure!

It's the Easter long weekend and as We've not had a holiday for so long have decided that this is now the time...

The Empress has her baggage packed already and will be joining me on our sojourn...

I've not been to the seaside for probably over 10 years and have almost forgotten what it is like to dip ones stocking clad foot into the foamy brine...

I'm looking forward to having that salty fluid sprayed and sloshed upon my person once again...

I'm hoping to revisit some of the beaches of my childhood...

Miles and miles of white sand, rolling surf, rock-pools full of starfish and sea-squirts, unimaginably strange and wondrous critters that scuttled and darted or swam or squelched and slithered incredibly slowly or just lolled about... Even some that glowed in the dark turning, waves and the sand the vegetation the power poles and even the toilet block in the camping ground... into something I imagined was a glittering fairyland.

I remember seeing my first Blue Ringed octopus for real! In one of the rock-pools that we as kids would swim in when the tide was low. One of the park rangers had found it and had it out of the water and on the sand to show everyone what they looked like...

I remember how utterly disappointed I was at seeing its actual size! It was so tiny in comparison to it's deadly reputation(Although it still can be quite deadly)

Read about them hereI remember walking along the beach with my grandmother to caves that were only accessible at low tide to hunt forgreen agate and for "pipi" shells to turn into necklaces strung together with dried grasses...Hopefully we will find a spare bathing box

One must maintain some dignity and a modicum of decorumYet I am lead to believe that they are a little more "up market" these days...

Oh we do like to be beside the seaside and are envious of the beach adventures which are undoubtedly waiting for you and the Empress.

We are pleased to note that you will be hiring a bathing machine since it is so tiresome, not to say unpleasant, these days when people of all ages, sizes and shapes reveal far too much flesh whilst wriggling into or out of their swimming costumes with only the scantiest of towels to hide their modesty. However, should one of those delicious bathing beauties you show here be lying around on the sand, then we would not be turning the other way!

"I'm looking forward to having that salt fluid splash and slouch upon my person again." do we really need to hear the dirty details of the fourth coming sojourn......especially with the Empress present. What ever would she say.??? I just adore me a beach locale......always so invigorating and rejuvenating. Have a lovely trip and a swell Easter lambchop.